Without Remorse

His work for the CIA is brilliant, cold-blooded, and efficient, but who is he? In a harrowing tour de force, phenomenally best-selling author Tom Clancy shows how an ordinary man named John Kelly crossed the lines of justice and morality to become the CIA legend known as Mr. Clark. It is an unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness, without mercy - without remorse.

Red Storm Rising

When Muslim fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, making an already critical oil shortage calamitous, the Russians figure they are going to have to take things into their own hands. They plan to seize the Persian Gulf, and more ambitiously, to neutralize NATO. Thus begins Red Storm, an audacious gamble that uses diplomatic maneuver to cloak a crash military build-up.

Against All Enemies

For years, ex–Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America’s enemies at every turn. And then...news of a potentially devastating coalition: What if two of the greatest threats to the security of the United States were to form an unholy alliance?

Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Tom Clancy's Op-Center #1

A terrorist bomb explodes during a South Korean celebration of the anniversary of the election of its first president. Alarms are raised in Washington. No one is claiming responsibility. The first suspect is North Korea. Could it be making a power play against South Korea and unification? If so, how will the U.S. respond? Paul Hood, Director of the Op-Center, must answer these questions. The Op-Center, a largely autonomous new agency which takes on the government's toughest security problems, is only six months old, and has never been given a foreign crisis until now.

On Wings of Eagles

When two of his American employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands: American businessman H. Ross Perot. His team consisted of a group of volunteers from the executive ranks of his corporation, hand-picked and trained by a retired Green Beret officer. To free the imprisoned Americans, they would face incalculable odds on a mission that only true heroes would have dared.

Team Yankee: A Novel of World War III

Team Yankee, the New York Times best-seller by Harold Coyle, presents a glimpse of what it would have been like for the soldiers who would have had to meet the relentless onslaught of Soviet and Warsaw Pact divisions. Using the geo-political and military scenarios described by General Sir John Hackett, former NORTHAG commander and author of World War Three; August 1985, Team Yankee follows the war as seen from the turret of Captain Sean Bannon's tank.

Tom Clancy Presents: Act of Valor

Act of Valor takes audiences deep into the secretive world of the most elite, highly trained group of warriors in the modern world. When the rescue of a kidnapped CIA operative leads to the discovery of a deadly terrorist plot against the U.S., a team of SEALs is dispatched on a worldwide manhunt. As the valiant men of Bandito Platoon race to stop a coordinated attack that could kill and wound thousands of American civilians, they must balance their commitment to country, team and their families back home.

Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces

In this factual account written with General Carl Steiner (Ret.), a commander who held responsibility for all U.S. Special Operations forces across all service lines, we get special insight into a largely secretive community whose members do not talk about their work. We hear about it only afterwards: the Achille Lauro hijacking, the "takedown" of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, the efforts to find Aidid in Somalia. These are men sent in to do the impossible - and often, they achieve it.

Back to War: The Corps Justice Series, Book 1

In a bloody gang initiation gone wrong, Former Marine Staff Sergeant Cal Stokes simultaneously loses his fiancé and is thrust into America's unforgiving criminal underbelly. Never one to back down, the Navy Cross winner is forced to use the skills honed in the Marines along with the assets of his deceased father's company, Stokes Security International (S.S.I.), to track down his enemy and penetrate the world of his enemy. He must seek his own brand of justice... Corps Justice.

The Firm

At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. But he made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. Mitch should have remembered what his brother Ray -- doing 15 years in a Tennessee jail -- already knew. "You never get nothing for nothing."

The Bourne Identity

His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his delirium -- maybe code words. Initials: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne.

The Gray Man

Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man - a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible, and then fading away. And he always hits his target. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.

No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II

After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of weeks, that Hitler and his battered army have no other option than surrender. But despite the advice of his best military minds, Hitler will hear no talk of defeat. In mid-December 1944, the Germans launch a desperate and ruthless counteroffensive in the Ardennes forest, utterly surprising the unprepared Americans who stand in their way.

Memory Man

Amos Decker's life changed forever - twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good and left him with an improbable side effect - he can never forget anything.

Here are thrilling, never-before-heard stories of the Army's elite aviation unit - the most daring and professional helicopter crews in the world. Special Operations pilots are notoriously reticent; they don't talk about their missions, at least not to anyone outside their small community. But now, with the publication of The Night Stalkers, Durant and Steven Hartov shed a fascinating light on these mysterious super commandos and take readers into a world they have only imagined.

True Blue

Mason "Mace" Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything-her badge, her career, her freedom-and spent two years in prison. Now she's back on the outside and focused on one mission: to be a cop once more. Her only shot to be a true blue again is to solve a major case on her own, and prove she has the right to wear the uniform.

The Testament

Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a way to die. His potential heirs, to no one's surprise - especially Troy's - are circling like vultures. But Troy shocks them all when he leaves his fortune to an estranged, illegitimate daughter.

Publisher's Summary

The U.S. president, unsatisfied with the success of his "war on drugs", decides that he wants some immediate success. But after John Clark's covert strike team is deployed to Colombia for Operation Showboat, the drug lords strike back, taking several civilian casualties. The chief executive's polls plummet. He orders that the unofficial plan be terminated, leaving no traces.

Jack Ryan, who has just been named CIA deputy director of intelligence, is enraged when he discovers that he has been left out of the loop. Several of America's most highly trained soldiers are stranded on an unfinished mission that, according to all records, never existed. Ryan decides to get the men out.

First I want to say this is a great book, in print! I spend my days driving and love to listen to books on my Ipod.
The first thing I noticed was the narrator talks like he is dictating a long letter. I do not think he ever takes a breath and he talks very fast.
Sometimes he moves from one chapter to the next without a pause and I get lost. I also find it hard to distinguse between characters because his voice never seems to change.
These things may not bother some people but this is a very long book and the narrator of a book can either make or break a book.

When you listen to this book you want to check your tape player, and clean the head and rollers, but wait, you can't because it is a digital recording. The quality of the recording is horrible. The person who produced this version of the recording needs to be fired along with the quality assurance people who you would expect to be checking the recording. This is not a Audible problem, the MP3 recordings from Brilliance are the same horrible clipped compression. I bought the Hunt for Red October on MP3 cd and it has the same flaws. Someone should have caught this.

I read this book in hardback. I was surprised at how long it took to set up the storyline. It took patience, I never cared for the mechanical details in Clancy's work and usually breezed by it as a reader.
However, his characters are so well developed and believable. After the ball finally got rolling in the second part of the reading, I could not stop listening. The action and suspense are nothing short of remarkable.

I would if that person is also into Tom Clancy, but I think there are other stories that are more exciting. but this is not a good introductory book into the Tom Clancy/ Jack Ryan Universe

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

I Thought it was pretty crazy at times. Tom Clancy describes things in such great detail and knows how the world works! It was that much more believable!

Which character – as performed by J. Charles – was your favorite?

Honestly? J. Charles was a Bit flat sometimes, there was no real distinction or differentiation between characters.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The ending was good. the Narrator did a great job when one of the characters dies.<br/>also another part was a Gunfight between a Police officer mowing his lawn and two Drug cartel hit-men was performed really well that was intense.

Any additional comments?

There are no clear transitions from the Narrator when the story changes locations and characters. Several times I found myself confused as to how these characters were with another group. or I thought they were in Washington? how could he be men in AK-47's marching up a Hill? oh now it's Chavez and Vega. I thought Jack was just at the Hospital with Greer. <br/><br/>Stuff like that, they don't emphasize the change in scenery. you need to be paying attention REALLY Hard.

I would not recommend this book to anyone. The simple facts are these; first, I couldn't tell which character was which. The performer in this book made every communal group of characters to sound exactly like each of the other characters in that particular community or group of characters. Second, whomever he was performing at the time sounded like a poorly trained actor. Third, my own personal opinion is that Clancy should not be experienced through Audible "reading". I have read several of his books, and attempted to listen to a different Clancy novel and ended up returning it based purely on the performer. However, I figured I'd give Clancy, and the narrator another shot, but this time with a book I had already read, and watched the movie. It didn't help. I wish I could return this one as well; it was that bad. However, I couldn't, in good conscience do that since I did in fact listen to the entire book. I will say this though, if it hadn't been for the fact that I was traveling cross country for Christmas and listened to the book in two sittings, I would have returned it. I didn't enjoy this at all. The narrator is by far and away the biggest reason why though.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Since I have read the book myself, I can easily say in the book form, Clark is easily my favorite character. Sadly, his character is lost in the droning and confusion of the narrator's inability to create different voices for every character and you end up not being able to connect to him as you do in the book form; or the movie for that matter!

What didn’t you like about J. Charles’s performance?

Charles' performance leaves a lot to be desired. I will give him the benefit of saying that there are SO MANY characters in a Clancy novel that he must perform for, but this novel may have been better served had two or even three performers did the production because I personally found it hard, in act impossible to keep track of which character was speaking at given times. I even found myself rewinding and re-listening to different passages two or three times to figure out whom it was I was supposed to be listening to at any given time. He is no where near what I would refer to as a favorite of mine.

Did Clear and Present Danger inspire you to do anything?

It inspired me to never again listen to a Clancy novel. I had intended on buying The Hunt for Red October after this novel: needless to say, that will NOT be happening.

Any additional comments?

I hope that the Audible "Powers that be" would consider redoing the production with more than one performer to better allow the listener to be engaged by the characters. Especially the field personnel and the Coast Guardsmen. So much of their personality and sense of duty and charisma is lost by J. Charles's lack of ability to create and maintain dramatic vocal scenes in this novel. As I said, I bought a previous Clancy novel performed by Charles as well; I returned that novel and thought I'd give this one a shot. It was not a good idea on my part. I am sure Mr. Charles is great in other endeavors, however, with so many characters that Clancy presents in his novels, I don't think he is a good choice as the performer for Clancy novels. Again, I am not trying to be insulting; I am merely trying to be helpful to the Audible community and be honest in my personal opinion of this particular performer and his inability to maintain a drama and excitement filled novel. Leaving port, flying on a commercial airplane, driving in D.C. and fighting in the jungles of Colombia should NOT ALL sound or feel the same in a novel.

Almost anyone. The narration was rather flat. There was no distinction between settings. No pause, no change, nothing to tell you that there had been a change. So several sentences into the next paragraph you would realize you were no longer in DC but had moved into Colombia (for example).

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Very disappointing. This was the first Tom Clancy novel I had listened to/read. After seeing several movie adaptation of his novels I had higher expectations.

I absolutely love my audible account, makes its from enjoying a book to loving the stories found in the books.
Do forgive my errors in the reviews i do have dyslexia but i will share my love with everyone

Tom Clancy writes with a new twist, before he writes about the USSR and Terrorists, this time its about criminals who according to the president is a "clear and present danger." so how does the United States of America deal with the Colombian drug lords? the CIA creates a huge black ops mission that borders on the side of illegal. with James Greer in the hospital, Jack Ryan is acting DDI and unfortunately is kept out of the loop. unfortunately for the rest of the CIA that just makes Ryan more persistent. but what happens when a black op gets out of hand.

Tom Clancy is brilliant in how he shows that even in the US government agencies there can be divisions and mistakes. there is also integrity and loyalty found with those who challenge corruption.